I'll be the first to confess that when it comes to recruiting I am behind the 8-ball because as soon as lax season ends I shift gears to football, which consumes me annually from July-December. There are others who know much more than I do when it comes to the recruiting end of it. I do find it troubling that the major schools are recruiting and getting oral commitments from players before they even begin their JUNIOR year of high school. This system of identifying and targeting talent before young bodies even finishing developing is risky business, imo. I think that is why you see so many very good players slipping through the cracks and helping other teams become very good. That noted, Inside Lacrosse has ranked SU's Class of 2013 the best in the nation so far, so reports of the staff losing its recruiting touch as soon as SU has a tough season seem to me to be off base.

As for SU's struggles at the X, I can only note that Chris Daddio was a US Lacrosse All-American who won 88 percent of his draws as a high school senior and Ricky Buhr was IL's No. 21 rated midfielder coming out of high school with a 74 percent career success rate at the X.

No question I blew this one. My duty is to tweet the final, then blog a story right after the game ends and still get downstairs in time for the press conference. Unlike college football and its "cooling off" period, the lax players and coaches sometimes go into the interview room right from the field. I have gotten caught a few times walking right into the middle of the postgame and asking questions that were already asked. In a one-goal game that can go either way it becomes much harder to do all that because I can't write the game story in advance and plug in the score at the end (which is what I did last week in the opener). I had two windows opened, Twitter and the blog tool. As soon as the game ended I blogged a quick game story and ran downstairs to do my interviews. When I returned to the pressbox I saw the Twitter window on my task bar and immediately realized I had forgotten to tweat the final. I promptly did it, albeit way late. For that I apologize.

As for the second comment, I really don't understand. I tweeted after every goal in the game. The twitter tool can be extremely slow in the Dome, and sometimes the tweets took a while to upload. It's something we deal with more during football, but it happens in lacrosse, too. Anyway, I tweeted after every goal. I have no idea whether all those tweets actually showed up, but I tweeted after every goal.

Fixed. I have an absolute mental block on poor Jonathan Fisher's name. It is very embarrassing. I have never had anything like this happen to me before, and of course everything gets blogged unedited so I am at the mercy of myself.

The thing is it's a classic straw man argument. Take a look at that list of players and tell me how many were 4- or 5-star recruits coming out of high school. Dwight Freeney? Uh, I think his offers were Duke, UConn and SU. Will Allen? Wake Forest and SU. Just go down the list. For every Rob Konrad, who had big-time offers, there are five or six others who were "developed" here into NFL stars.

After checking the hard copy of the preview section in this morning's paper it appears that an edited version of the story minus the captaincy thing was in the paper but the unedited version with the old bottom was scheduled for syracuse.com. In any case it has been corrected.

It is a big blunder. I wrote the story before the captains were elected and assumed he was going to get the nod. When he did not I emailed in a new bottom to the story. An editor called me and asked about the captain thing and I said I reminded him I emailed in a new bottom to the story, and he said he would make the change. He apparently never did. The new bottom of the story will be added right now by me.